2.3 ▼ -8.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Ashmont · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Ashmont
How families and households are made up across the area.
Over a third of the people in Ashmont live alone, making it a place where single-person households are very common. This trend is mirrored in the family data, where one-parent homes are far more frequent than in most other parts of the country.
2.3
▼ -8.0%
- 1.5–1.6: 490 areas
- 1.6–1.8: 168 areas
- 1.8–1.9: 642 areas
- 1.9–2.1: 816 areas
- 2.1–2.2: 1854 areas
- 2.2–2.4: 1319 areas
- 2.4–2.5: 2753 areas
- 2.5–2.7: 1349 areas
- 2.7–2.8: 2332 areas
- 2.8–3.0: 805 areas
- 3.0–3.1: 1044 areas
- 3.1–3.3: 289 areas
- 3.3–3.4: 386 areas
- 3.4–3.6: 110 areas
- 3.6–3.7: 85 areas
- 3.7–3.9: 40 areas
- 3.9–4.0: 258 areas
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Ashmont — lower than 71% of areas.
| Ashmont | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 2650, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Ashmont holds 2.3 people, which is a little below the national figure of 2.5. This is driven by the fact that 34.3% of households consist of just one person, a rate well above the Australian average of 25.6%.
34.3% ▲ +20.5%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.4%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 34.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Ashmont splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (34%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 35.3% of the local total, a figure far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. These households are among the highest in the country for this family type.
35.3% ▲ +11.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.7%
- 2016: 36.0%
- 2021: 35.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Ashmont splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (39%) and One-parent families (35%), with Couples without children at 23%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Ashmont [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10102/ashmont/topic/family-households